Things Happen Quotes - Page 8

• Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

  Damon Galgut

  Memories, Return, Happens

  "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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• Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.

  Shawn Johnson

  Mom, Everything Happens For A Reason, Littles

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• Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

  David Shields

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Stories, Want

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Writing, Two

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• I realize that things happen for a reason

  Karl Malone

  Realizing, Reason, Happens

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• We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

  Gene Weingarten

  Believe, People, Monsters

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

  Studs Terkel

  Realizing, Excited, Active

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.

  Joseph Bruchac

  Teacher, Mean, Thinking

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• There are people who make things happen, there are people who
  watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
  happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
  things happen.

  Jim Lovell

  Motivational, Success, People

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• There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, People, Watches

  Herman Cain (2011). “This Is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Things don't just happen; things happen just.

  Jim Rohn

  Happens

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• Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Funny Things, Trying, Way

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• There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.

  Rex D. Pinegar

  Prayer, Our World, People

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

  Lori Greiner

  Mind, Happens, Ifs

  Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.258, Ballantine Books

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• Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

  Al Ries

  Change, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2001). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

  Pierre Salinger

  Funny, Way, Firsts

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• Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

  LaToya Jackson

  Stay Strong, Book, Pages

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• Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

  Greg Ginn

  Needs, Way, Breathe

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• I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

  Bob Goff

  Mistake, Past, Views

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jesus modelled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Confused, What If

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• I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Knowing, Happenings

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

  David B. Haight

  Life, Fall, Kingdoms

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• I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

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• One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

  Dalai Lama

  Time, Fighting, Technology

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